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Capitol Violence Wasn’t Surprising — and Was Very Convenient for the Left
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Capitol Violence Wasn’t Surprising — and Was Very Convenient for the Left

Selwyn Duke

Those storming the Capitol January 6 should and likely will be punished in a way that, you can bet, 2020’s leftist rioters should have been but almost universally weren’t. The 1/6 lawbreakers were also condemned by mainstream media in a way the leftist rioters should have been but almost universally weren’t. That’s the two-tiered justice system and crocodile-tear media we now have. 

Yet the storming perhaps “wasn’t so surprising,” noted commentator Andrea Widburg January 7. She writes that for years the Left has endeavored to destroy a duly elected president, and its “rage and disdain have been open and aggressive.”

This effort’s media demonization of President Trump has been unending, with defamation status quo. His supporters have been treated likewise. Why, ex-CNN figure Reza Aslan called them an “evil, racist scourge [that] must be eradicated from society.”  

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